Foot-plate for skates



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J. V. ROWLETT.

FOOT PLATE FOR SKATES. v No. 318,624. Patented Mar. 10, 1885.

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JACOB V. RO\VLETT, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA.

FOOT-=PLATE FOR SKATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,622, dated March 10, 1835.

Application filed August 29, lSF-L (Xo mode) To all whom it may concern:

ets d e, or anyother suitable means. The stay Be it known that I, JACOB V. ROWLETT, of or brace may be used with or Without the strut Richmond, in the county of \Vayne, and the State of Indiana, have invented certain I111- provements in Foot-Plates for Skates, of which the following is a specification. 1

My invention relates to a new mode of constructing a metal foot-plate forskates, in which I use a longitudinal stay or brace attached thereto in such manner as to form a truss, by which means Iattain both cheapuess and lightness in construction, all as hereinafter Fig. 2 is a attached to the foot-plate by means of the rivor support 0 interposed between it and the foot-plate A, as may be desired, and the vertical support 0 may be constructed in any suitable forni.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a foot-plate for roller-skates, a stay or brace underlying the upwardly-curved instep portion and attached to the plate at its ends, substantially as specified.

2. In a foot-plate for roller skates, a stay or brace underlying the upwardly-curved instep portion, in combination with the strut or post interposed between said stay and the plate, substantially as specified.

JACOB V. ROVVLETT.

Vitnesses:

F. B. HUNT, XV. A. PEELLE. 

